pecker
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"Thank you so much to everyone that has bought it - I hope you're having as much fun listening to it as I had making it. Keep your pecker up and all the very best."
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2014
“We’re just off Beachy Head, and you must lie where you are till mornin’; but, as you must be famished by now, I’ve brought you a bit of grub to keep your pecker up.
From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by Overend, William Heysham
Our people met with other small birds there, but in no great variety and abundance; such as the wood pecker, the bullfinch, the yellow finch, and a small bird called a tit-mouse.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert
“Keep your pecker up, and if you’ll take the advice of an old sailor, I’d recommend you to write to your friends and go home.”
From On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story by Overend, William Heysham
Keep up your pecker, sir; never say die; and don’t you think about it.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon
Concrete peckers will be used to take the old bridge away before the debris is removed and the new bridge will be wheeled down the motorway and fitted into place.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024
A perennial headache is the exotic structures' attraction for curiosity seekers and peckers.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were blue jays, which are very quarrelsome birds, and black-and- white peckers that pecked holes in the yucca stalks and the poles of my roof, even in the whale bones of the fence.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
She lingered uncertainly among complacent wood peckers from the north.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Of course the swallows had long since departed, and with the advent of the blue-jays and golden-winged wood peckers a few heavy-pinioned hawks had appeared, wheeling all day over the pine-woods, calling querulously.
From A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
